Automotive and Suppliers
OEM suppliers facing IATF 16949 requirements, customer audits (VDA 6.3) and tough complaint processes.
What makes this industry distinctive
IATF 16949 is methodologically demanding — APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA and SPC are not optional. On top come customer-specific requirements (CSR) and process audits to VDA 6.3. We work with tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers who have to hold up in the OEM environment.
Situations clients come to us with
Customer audit to VDA 6.3
An OEM customer announces a process audit to VDA 6.3. You know your FMEA practice is not audit-grade.
IATF re-certification with non-conformities
The last audit produced major non-conformities in FMEA updates and MSA — and you do not want to repeat that.
8D process under pressure
Complaints get escalated, the 8D process is overloaded and produces superficial root-cause analyses.
CSR from your OEM customers
The Customer-Specific Requirements (BMW, VW, Daimler, Stellantis etc.) keep growing — and your team is supposed to handle all of them in parallel.
Which standards matter in this industry
IATF re-certification with non-conformity recovery
Stamping and forming manufacturer, 220 employees, Bavaria. Starting point: previous year's re-certification with two major non-conformities (FMEA, MSA), risk of losing the IATF certificate. Approach: root-cause analysis, FMEA update across all product families, build-up of MSA study routines, methodology training. Result: follow-up audit closed with no findings; the plant now actively uses the FMEA structures in product development.
Anonymised example, representative of our work in this industry.
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